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Former Gawker editor and Awl founder Choire Sicha: “If I were going to be buying things now, I would be buying media properties. You get a lot of bang for your buck. People are making good, stable money, recession or no. Now is the time that people should be trying things and having fun.”

Choire Sicha’s [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 13th through April 20th:

In the Crisis, the Journal Falls Short : Columbia Journalism Review – The Wall Street Journal won no Pulitzers. A sign that its coverage of the financial crisis has been rather weak.
"Also showing surprising grit has been Bloomberg News. Unheralded, gloves-off, [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 8th through April 13th:

‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers – NYTimes.com – Covers EveryBlock, other startups in the local news aggregation field
Please Enjoy – The Work of Ji Lee – Redundant clock. Nice!
Twitter / hotdogsladies: Writing may be the craft of … – [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from April 6th through April 8th:

Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts – Bob Dylan on why the South is so strange: "It must be the Southern air. It’s filled with rambling ghosts and disturbed spirits. They’re all screaming and forlorning."
Hands-On [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 26th through April 6th:

Micro-Billing Suits the Phone Companies Just Fine – NYTimes.com – "As the music, film, television, newspaper, book and video-game industries strain to find a way to thrive in the new digital marketplace, one seems to have figured it all out. It [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 24th through March 26th:

Endless-sphere.com • Index page – Discussion about homemade electric bikes, how to build them, technical issues, etc.
The Aeneid on Facebook – very funny
Erowid Yerba Mate Vault : Does Yerba Mate contain caffeine or mateine? – According to some, "mateine" is left-handed [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from March 23rd through March 24th:

Reflections of a Newsosaur: The case for charging to read WSJ.Com – Bill Grueskin, former managing editor of WSJ.Com, sorts through what he calls “a few common myths” to provide insights into why and how the Journal came to be the [...]